Entrust Inc. has been providing PKI services to the General Services Administration as part of the USAccess program since July 2007. The GSA reached a milestone this week, activating it 450,000th PIV credential with PKI. The GSA created the USAccess program to facilitate the deployment of the credentials. The program was developed in response to […]

DigitalPersona, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced insurance company MMG Insurance has chosen them to roll-out biometric logical access control to their headquarters and various regional offices. The solution, DigitalPersona Pro, utilizes fingerprint sensor for a single sing-on solution. MMG expects the solution to save their employees large amounts of time as their previous […]

SCM Microsystem has released the CHIPDRIVE MyKey in the U.S. The product, which utilizes an encrypted PIN-protected password manager with Microsoft Windows access and compatibility, has been circulating in Europe’s security solutions market for more than a year. SCM has now partnered with online retailers such as Amazon, Buy.com and Staples to make the product […]

The Identive Group, formerly SCM Microsystems, Hirsch Electronic and Bluehill ID, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RockWest Technology Group, a privately-held identification and security solutions provider. RockWest provides ID management solutions and services to the education, government, corporate, casino and health care markets in the southwest region of the U.S. […]

Jim Zok, director of identity and privacy assurance at CSC, talks about the issues surrounding identity assurance. With concerns regarding ID theft and cybersecurity on the rise there should be some type of way for citizens to authenticate online. Standards, liability and practices are all issues that need to be settled before an identity assurance […]

AOptix Technologies, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that they have been chosen by software developer Microsoft to provide a biometric access control solution to Microsoft’s Global Security Operations Center in Redmond, Wash., according to a Trading Markets article. The system from Aoptix being used is their InSight iris scanning system that can scan […]

Arcot System’s cloud authentication service, A-OK On Demand, has been selected as Evangelical Christian Credit Union’s (ECCU) official online transaction security system. The software from Arcot was said to meet all the needs of ECCU’s online banking system which included software-only PKI security. Account holders at ECCU in more than 100 countries now utilizing A-OK […]